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71 statements about Cambridge in 23 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Ali and Molly Hunt have known each other since 2012, when they were in the same year and college studying medicine at Cambridge; eight years on they live together. — 00:00:28
2020-06-12 (said on 2020-05-27, implied) · Crushes, Challenges and Irritating Habits - Q&A With My Roommate Molly — Molly Hunt is a junior doctor in the Cambridge region who went to medical school with Ali at Cambridge. — 00:00:28

2018

2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali: Late in the evening Ali drives to the ADC, the local theatre in Cambridge, for the Cambridge University Show Choir's show. — 00:02:25
2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — Ali describes the Cambridge University Show Choir as the Cambridge equivalent of a glee club, singing musical, Disney and pop songs a cappella with lots of dancing, and says he loves its shows. — 00:02:55
2018-01-03 · Preparing for the SJT - Ali's Vlog #21 — a guest: A friend going to the Show Choir for the first time compares it to Pitch Perfect in Cambridge, is excited, and says La La Land has some great tunes. — 00:02:55
2018-01-06 · Magic, pizza and SJT - Ali's Vlog #22 — Ali sets off on the long cycle into Cambridge town centre in the cold, snowy weather to sit the SJT. — 00:00:00
2018-01-06 · Magic, pizza and SJT - Ali's Vlog #22 — Ali: After Pizza Hut the group relaxed around Cambridge, went to the Winter Fair, had more homemade pizza and spent about five hours playing a board game. — 00:03:36
2018-02-14 · Monthly Favourites #1 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: A few years earlier, through the Cambridge Medical Society, Ali and the society's president had dinner with Simon Wessely at a steakhouse in Cambridge. — 00:05:12
2018-02-21 · Another Day of Fun (La La Land) - The Prion King · Addenbrooke’s Hospital Pantomime 2018 — Ali: King's Lynn is famously the furthest placement, a 1h30m drive from Cambridge, so complaining about it is fashionable among Cambridge clinical students. — video description
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Some UK medical schools, such as Cambridge, require an intercalated degree, and there medical school lasts six years. — 00:00:29
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali ranked East Anglia as his first-choice foundation region because it includes Cambridge, which he really likes, and the smaller hospitals of his placements: Ipswich, Bedford, Peterborough, King's Lynn. — 00:04:53
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali will be assigned to the East Anglia deanery for the Foundation Programme, his first choice because he loves Cambridge, and is now ranking its jobs. — 00:06:50
2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali: Missing the Academic Foundation Programme was a bit of a blow to Ali; he will instead do the normal Foundation Programme in Cambridge. — 00:08:35
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali thinks he got one of his top few foundation job choices: his first year at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and his second at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali says West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds is about a 40-minute drive from Cambridge. — 00:00:29
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali hopes to live in Cambridge for both of his foundation years. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali is relieved to stay in Cambridge for his two foundation years: he loves Cambridge as a place and thinks his plan is to live there forever. — 00:01:16
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali: With his foundation jobs known, Ali can start looking at houses, find out who else will be in the area and work out whom to live with. — 00:01:38
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali found meeting viewers in person when they came for their Cambridge interviews a pretty incredible experience. — 00:02:44
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: Ali: To stay consistent Ali likes changing his work environment: in exam terms as an undergraduate in central Cambridge he went to a different library each day, about 20 in all. — 00:08:20
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — recommendation: a guest: A guest advises being motivated positively, not negatively: treat an offer, such as one from Cambridge, as a chance to work towards rather than a fear of missing it. — 00:10:56
2018-04-12 · Motivation, Stress & Time Management - Exam Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali says that even if you miss the university you wanted, such as Oxford, Cambridge or Imperial, you will be as happy as if you had gone there, a comforting thought that helped him cope with worrying about the future. — 00:12:09
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali applied to UCL, King's, Imperial and Cambridge for medicine. — 00:11:42
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali would welcome collaborations with other Cambridge YouTubers: although about to graduate, he will be in Cambridge for the next two years. — 00:14:37
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Two of Ali's friends studying medicine at Cambridge got one and two A* GCSEs: three between them, more than the other 800 students of their Birmingham school combined. — 00:15:05
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali's rough rule of thumb: for Oxford or Cambridge be at least in the top five of your year group; for medicine generally, in the top 10 or 20 percent. — 00:15:32
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali says Cambridge does not really give scholarships for being clever, to international or UK and EU students, but has bursaries for students from low-income backgrounds. (hedged) — 00:18:34
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali says some governments, such as Singapore's and Malaysia's, and organisations in India and Pakistan pay Cambridge fees for really clever students. — 00:19:02
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali says always take a fourth A-level if you have the chance: most Cambridge students have at least four, and having only three is unusual there. — 00:21:12
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali finds the Cambridge medicine course fun: he is not a fan of complaining about it and likes its structure and its people. — 00:23:08
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali: Imperial also accepted Ali for medicine, but he chose Cambridge, which he calls better. — 00:27:59
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali: Halal food in Cambridge: many shops on Mill Road sell it, and Sainsbury's now sells halal chicken. — 00:39:30
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — announcement: Ali will do a Q&A with one of his friends doing graduate-entry medicine at Cambridge and asks viewers to send questions by email or Instagram. — 00:49:20
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali advises applicants not to look at the admission statistics of Cambridge and Oxford colleges, which he calls pretty irrelevant. — 00:49:49
2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — Ali got a 2:1 in his first year at Cambridge, 2% short of a first. — 00:49:49
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — Ali learned a couple of days before the video that he passed his final-year exams at Cambridge, so he is pretty much officially a doctor. — 00:00:00
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali has submitted his provisional registration to the General Medical Council and, barring calamity, expects to start working as a doctor in Cambridge from 23 July 2018. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali officially starts as a junior doctor on 1 August 2018, but East Anglia, the region of Cambridge, has a week of shadowing first, so he will be in the hospital from 23 July. — 00:02:34
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Medicine at Cambridge involves quite a lot of essay writing, Ali says: about two or three essays a week, at least in the first three years. — 00:04:35
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Cambridge medicine essay titles in physiology, Ali says, might be the structure and function of the sodium pump, comparing the types of muscle, or how the body keeps its pH from becoming deranged after a can of Coke. — 00:06:04
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Medics work together in a lot of Cambridge colleges, Ali says; he thinks Emmanuel's group is friendlier and more cohesive than average, and Christ's, Caius and a few others have strong medic groups, from what he has heard. — 00:07:00
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: Asked whether young students should already think about universities, Ali says do what you like: he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge from quite a young age. — 00:07:25
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali will do his first foundation year in Cambridge and his second in Bury St Edmunds, both in the East Anglia region. — 00:09:14
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali became interested in obstetrics and gynaecology because it was the placement he enjoyed most in medical school, he did a couple of projects in it, and people doing it in Cambridge seemed to like it. — 00:10:50
2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — recommendation: Ali: Whether to apply to aspirational or safe medical schools depends on whether the aim is medicine or one school: Ali aimed for Cambridge and applied to Cambridge, Imperial, UCL and one more; to become a doctor, safer options make sense. — 00:12:05
2018-06-01 · Coldplay - "Yellow" · Acoustic cover ft. Zobia Haq — Ali: Suhail Idrees and Zobia Haq studied at Cambridge, where Ali befriended them through the Pakistan Society; now in city jobs, they come back to Cambridge at weekends to sing with him. — 00:00:00
2018-06-01 · Coldplay - "Yellow" · Acoustic cover ft. Zobia Haq — Ali: Zobia Haq studied History at Cambridge and works at a bank in London; Suhail Idrees studied Engineering at Cambridge, spent a year at MIT, worked a year as an Apple product designer and is now a London management consultant. — video description

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2017

2017-01-28 · When I Was Your Man (Bruno Mars) - Duranka Perera cover — Ali: Duranka Perera came to Cambridge the night before the upload to watch the Addenbrooke's Pantomime, and he and Ali put together a quick cover. — video description
2017-02-26 · Let It Go (James Bay) + Stitches (Shawn Mendes) Mashup - Sam Ahmed (Esayem Music) & Suhail Idrees — Ali: Sam Ahmed came back to Cambridge for the half-term holidays, so they mashed James Bay's "Let It Go" and Shawn Mendes's "Stitches" together and recorded the song. — video description
2017-09-07 (said on 2017-08-28, implied) · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 — Ali bought a DJI Mavic Pro drone a few days earlier to get aerial shots of Cambridge for his vlog, planning also to film the colleges in 4K and sell the footage on a stock video website. — 00:01:01
2017-09-07 (said on 2017-08-28, implied) · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 — Ali's friend Callum found that most of Cambridge is a no-fly zone: it lies in the direct landing path of Cambridge airport, so drones need permission from air traffic control. — 00:01:01
2017-09-07 (said on 2017-08-28, implied) · Journey to placement - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #02 — Ali returns the DJI Mavic Pro drone to John Lewis in Cambridge town centre and praises the shop's customer service. — 00:01:50
2017-09-15 · Midnight Medical Emergency - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #04 — Ali: On the last day of the wilderness medicine trip the group goes for a walk to soak in the Yorkshire countryside before going back to flat Cambridge. — 00:01:35
2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — Ali is academic lead on the committee of the Cambridge University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society, which organises events and talks, and hopes to organise lectures for it. — 00:00:08
2017-09-22 · Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Baking - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #06 — Sarah, president of the Cambridge University Obstetrics & Gynaecology Society for 2017–18, says the society puts on many events to help anyone interested in obstetrics and gynaecology with their career path. — 00:00:50
2017-10-12 · My first lecture for medical students - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #09 — Ali: On a Friday half day Ali heads home early from placement to Cambridge for a clinical communication skills session, in which the students interview an actor pretending to be a patient. — 00:00:00
2017-11-18 · Speaking at a Medical Tech Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #13 — Ali takes a train from Cambridge to Birmingham for a two-day medical technology conference, where he will give a talk on how to build apps, using a medical app he helped work on as a case study. — 00:00:00
2017-11-18 · Speaking at a Medical Tech Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #13 — Ali opens his conference talk on making apps: a final-year Cambridge medical student who makes apps and websites on the side, he addresses people familiar with computers who have never coded. — 00:03:48
2017-11-18 · Speaking at a Medical Tech Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #13 — Ali: Back in Cambridge, Ali is glad he went to the medical technology conference: it was a good conference, he had a good time and spent the night with his cousins in Birmingham. — 00:06:05
2017-12-16 · Finals study sesh - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #17 — Ali's Cambridge medical finals are about three weeks away: a multiple-choice paper on the medicine and a short-answer paper of paragraph answers to clinical ethics and law scenarios. — 00:00:00
2017-12-16 · Finals study sesh - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #17 — Ali: On a Sunday morning Ali and his fellow final-year students revise for their medical finals in Hot Numbers, a coffee shop in central Cambridge, sipping coffee and reading through their notes. — 00:00:00
2017-12-16 · Finals study sesh - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #17 — Ali: At John Lewis in Cambridge Ali picks a reasonably priced kitchen blowtorch as his mum's birthday present, which he and his brother will pool together to buy. — 00:01:26
2017-12-22 · Singing carols in the hospital - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #18 — Ali: On placement in King's Lynn for most of his final year, Ali always enjoys coming back to Cambridge; he thinks he wants to live in Cambridge forever. — 00:03:25
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: About three days before his finals, on a Friday, Ali sings bass in the choir at the annual clinical school carol service in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. — 00:00:21
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: At Cambridge, undergraduates have access to their college's JCR for the first three years; graduates and clinical medical students get access to the MCR. — 00:01:58
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali calls their takeaway in the MCR classic pre-exam procrastination and says that, although people say Cambridge is all about work, it is really more about having fun and fitting the work around it. — 00:02:27
2017-12-23 · Procrastinating before finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #19 — Ali: On the Sunday before his first finals paper, with St Albans covered in snow, Ali's only aim is to get back to Cambridge in time, by train if they run or by car. — 00:04:16
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali sits the final written paper of Cambridge medical school: a multiple-choice paper of 125 questions taking about two and a half hours, after which he and his classmates are free. — 00:00:00
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali says that in Cambridge clinical school all the groups are randomised, so it no longer really matters which college you are from and you end up being friends with everyone. — 00:00:00
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali writes that after finishing the final written exam of medical school they celebrated by roaming Cambridge, editing video, eating at a buffet and playing a board game for six hours. — video description
2017-12-24 · Finishing finals - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #20 — Ali finishes the last written paper of his Cambridge medical finals and is glad it is done, though he found it a really, really hard exam. — 00:01:10